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Montreal Poetry Prize 2015
Amazing news – especially considering that I don’t write any more! I have been shortlisted for the Montreal Poetry Prize. I am in the 2015 anthology. You can read my poem, The African Burial Ground, and hear a recording of me reading it here. (You might want to glance at a famous piece of American…
Brexit Selfie
So – I made a piece about Brexit. I was pleased to be invited to participate in Thomas Gray’s Borderzones exhibition. I felt like it was worth braving the controversy to make the piece, which you can see here. In the end I got about equal flack from both sides, so I consider that to be a…
Cone Interventions in Rural Iceland!
I found time on my residency in Fljotstunga for some cone interventions:
Fragile Viking
This is my project from my residency in Fljotstunga, Iceland. It comprises paper boats, floating in rural Iceland, including in an ice and lava cave. It’s about lots of things – human fragility in the harsh landscape, the sheer aburdity of placing paper in this extreme environment, journeys – literal and emotional, displacement, etc. It…
Podcasts n stuff
Episode 72 of the Disability Visibility Project – it’s me! Also: spoke with Mike Layward at Midlands Arts Papers Launch and for the Research/Curate podcast.
Correction
Installation/Performance/Interactive Piece I sit at a desk with mouth taped, so demonstrably mute. People sit, if they want, and write down a memory or event they didn’t like, or an action they were ashamed of, or a secret that burdens them. I tip-ex over the text. I write a new event/memory to replace it….